Artistic Existence Quotes

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

A musician's whole life is to listen.

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my existence even more by standing on a large stage.

Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.

We felt if we didn't have new material in us and we didn't have a real reason to exist, then we probably wouldn't have done an 80's revival thing. We are very conscious about the fact that's what we are as a bunch of people.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.